Gain access to former user’s OneDrive data

In most organizations, you will have the employees leave at some point. In most cases, you will you probably want to access and protect their data. Data such as documents and emails and then transfer ownership to a manager or new employee. Performing a dump of the users home directories and contents of a hard drive is common practice, like that of exporting their PST from Outlook or even directly out of Office 365’s compliance center. Often overlooked is the contents of the users OneDrive.

OneDrive for Business may have been used to not only store and share documents but an archive space for the employee. Please note that OneDrive offers the user the ability to keep its contents synced with the user’s computer or just in-cloud. So the traditional method of backing up the computer may not always apply in this area.

I suggest taking the following steps to gain access and download the contents: